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title: And as she leaned down to drink, the lock of hair fell from her boso… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And as she leaned down to drink, the lock of hair fell from her bosom, and floated away with the water. Who acts: mother, lock. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Goose-girl, sentence 21

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And as she leaned down to drink, the lock of hair fell from her bosom, and floated away with the water.

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**Who acts:** mother, lock · **What happens:** learn down, drink, fall, float away, bosom · **To what, where:** bosom

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, lock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:15:21
# text = And as she leaned down to drink, the lock of hair fell from her bosom, and floated away with the water.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn down** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the lock of hair |  |  | mother's bosom |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bosom=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **float away** | past | the lock of hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the water; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bosom** |  | mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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